Drug interactions with warfarin

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by David N. Juurlink on drug interactions with the anticoagulant warfarin and another by Jonathan Barratt and Peter Topham on available methods for urinary protein analysis.

Spectral and electrochemical studies have been carried out on the interaction of pefloxacin with calf thymus double-stranded dsDNA. The voltammetric behavior of pefloxacin was investigated at glassy carbon, carbon paste and dsDNA-modified carbon paste electrodes using cyclic voltammetry....

Patients being treated with buprenorphine usually have a history of opioid dependence and may be predisposed to misuse of drugs. Concurrent drug misuse increases the risk of life-threatening drug interactions. This retrospective data analysis observed which nonprescribed and illicit drugs were...

Objective: To determine the frequency of false-positive benzodiazepine screens associated with sertraline use at the authors' institution. Method: Urine drug screen results spanning a two-year period were data mined to identify those positive for benzodiazepines. When confirmatory gas...

Investigates claims that antibiotics can cause false positive results for leukocytes in the urine dipstick test. Other studies on the diagnostic accuracy and reliability of the dipstick test; Urine culture as the only reliable method of diagnosis.